A/N: I own nothing...

Also, Allen and the Black Order will not show up for a bit but they will show up eventually

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"Now, I want you to be careful while you are at Hogwarts, darlin'." said Adam as he gripped Clio's shoulders "You never know what Dumbledore might try."

"I understand." said Clio.

"Good." he said "Now be sure to keep up with the training we started at the beginning of summer, Lulubell will be supervising you so no slacking off." Clio nodded and Adam pulled her into a tight embrace before placing a chaste kiss on her forehead "Farewell, darlin'."

"Good-bye, Adam." she whispered before he let her go. Adam's gaze turned to the black cat that had just jumped onto Clio's shoulder. It had golden eyes and a pale silver stigmata in the center of its forehead.

"Lulubell, take good care of my intended." said Adam "Or I will skin your hide, got it?" Lulubell nodded as the train whistle blew "It's time then. Off you go you two." Clio placed her hands on his shoulders and stood on the tips of her toes to place a soft kiss on Adam's cheek before scurrying onto the train as the whistle blew again. Sliding into the compartment Adam had placed her trunk in barely ten minutes earlier, Clio closed the door as Lulubell jumped off her shoulder before collapsing on the cushioned bench seat.

"These next few months are going to be most troublesome." said Lulubell, who was now in her usual form of a blonde woman wearing a suit with a pair of sunglasses hiding her eyes. Catching the older woman's sharp look, Clio adjusted how she was sitting so that it was more proper.

"It feels so odd to be going back." said Clio after a few moments of silence "I've grown so accustomed to life at the Kamelot Estate. Things are going to seem so dull this year." Lulubell nodded her head in acknowledgement as she began to read the book she had pulled out of nowhere. Clio sighed a bit before retrieving one of the books she had been given by Sheril and opening it. She was about halfway through the first chapter when the door to her compartment was flung open.
"Clio!" The familiar head of bushy brown hair was the only thing that kept Clio from instinctively lashing out at the person now hugging her tightly.

"H-Hermione?" said Clio before glancing at Lulubell. The book was gone and Lulubell was sitting there in her cat form, looking oddly amused.

"We've been so worried about you, Clio!" said Hermione as she pulled back "We thought that the Dark Lord had gotten you!"
"Well as you can see, Hermione, I'm perfectly fine." said Clio before yelping when Hermione smacked her with a book that she had pulled out of nowhere.

"Why didn't you write us then?!" asked Hermione as Clio rubbed her shoulder where Hermione had hit her.
"I've been busy." said Clio as she motioned for Hermione to take a seat "Alot has happened this summer."

"I read about the 'illegal' trial in the Daily Prophet." said Hermione as she sat down "Is it true that you're no longer an English citizen?"

"As of two months ago, yes." said Clio as Lulubell jumped onto her lap and laid down "And I thought that the Ministry controlled the Prophet?"

"Apparently this article got out before they could do anything about it." said Hermione "The Ministry has lost alot of credibility because of that. People are calling it a scheme to turn the Ministry into a dictatorship by Fudge." she looked a bit upset "I'm mad at you."

"For what?" asked Clio.

"Disappearing like you did!" said Hermione "You could've at least let me know or even Sirius or the Twins!"

"It was sprung on me last minute." said Clio as she scratched Lulubell's head, earning a purr from the currently feline Noah "I didn't have the time to write because I didn't know what was going on or where I was going until I got to Gringotts."

"What happened?" asked Hermione, her voice full of genuine concern. Clio looked down at Lulubell, who gave her a look of warning.

"I'm not permitted to tell you everything." said Clio, remembering the talk she had had with her betrothed the night before concerning what she could and could not tell her friends.

"Why?" asked Hermione.

"Somethings are too dangerous to be made known." said Clio "But I learned of the circumstances that brought about my birth and about a contract that my parents made with the family of Noah."

"The family of Noah?!" said Hermione in surprise "They're the oldest and most influential magical family in the entire world! They're said to have powers unlike anything ever seen before! How would your parents even been acquainted with the family? They're said to be elusive at best!"

"My parents were having difficulty conceiving a child." said Clio "The patriarch of the family of Noah, lord Millennium, appeared to them one day with a potion that would allow them to conceive a single child. The price would be named after the child's birth."

"I've only read about potions that could do that." said Hermione "The recipes are said to have been lost centuries ago! The family must've managed to keep a record of it after all these centuries!"

"Unfortunately, the records are only accessible by members of the family." said Clio, her fingers absentmindedly brushing against her cross pendant. Hermione gave a moan of disappointment.

"So what was the price named after your birth, Clio?" asked Hermione.

"My hand in marriage once I reach the age of majority." said Clio.

"An arranged marriage?" said Hermione. Clio knew by the tone of her voice that Hermione didn't like the old fashioned concept of an arranged marriage.

"I wasn't too keen on the idea myself initially." said Clio "But I've warmed up to it over the course of the summer."

"Is that where you were this summer?" asked Hermione "With your betrothed?"
"Yes." said Clio "In my parent's will, they said that if they died, guardianship of me would be passed to the family of Noah during the summer of my fifteenth birthday. I'm guessing that part of the reason was for me to get to know my betrothed better and they probably knew that their will would be ignored and I would be placed with the Dursleys."

"You've changed." said Hermione "But in a good way."
"How so?" asked Clio.

"You seem more confident." said Hermione "More like nobility than before."

"I've spent the summer with private tutors that can only be described at devils in disguise." said Clio "I had to learn everything a young noble woman should know and I had to get caught up in my non-magical education. I also learned that I am the last of three noble houses over the summer. So, technically, I am nobility. Kinda scary, isn't it?"

"Really? I had assumed that you knew about the Potter family being nobility." said Hermione "That's why I gave you that book on wizarding nobility last christmas."

"My heritage was kept from me." said Clio bitterly "I didn't learn of it until my betrothed came and retrieved me this summer." she motioned to the badge pinned to Hermione's robes "So you made Prefect?"

"Yes." said Hermione with a bright smile "So did Ron."

"Ron?" said Clio in disbelief.

"I thought the same thing." said Hermione before glancing towards the hall "I should go patrol the corridors..."
"Go ahead." said Clio with a smile "I won't be disappearing anytime soon." Hermione returned the smile before scurrying out into corridor.

"She's nosy." said Lulubell with a flick of her tail.

"Hermione's just too curious for her own good at times." said Clio "But that's saved my hide more times than I can count. Hermione's top of the class not just because of her insatiable curiosity or her incredible intelligence but because she's found a way to apply logic to the magical world." Lulubell didn't reply, instead choosing to move to a patch of sunlight to nap. Clio sighed before returning to the rather intriguing novel Sheril had given her. It wasn't like she had anything else to do on this long train ride.